Already well known for her lively Beany Malone stories, Mrs. Weber has here written [My True Love Waits,] a book no less lively but of more permanent value…. The larger part of the book—and the best of it—is devoted to the hardships and adventures that Mary and the five people who go with her meet on their covered-wagon journey to Denver City. It is a realistic story that does not soft-pedal the grim side of such an undertaking, though the book has a happy and satisfactory ending. (pp. 128-29)

Jennie D. Lindquist, in The Horn Book Magazine (copyrighted, 1953, by The Horn Book, Inc., Boston), April, 1953.

[Beany Has a Secret Life] takes our heroine, now a junior at Harkness High in Denver, over some rough 16 year old bumps. There's a new stepmother in newsman Martie Malone's large family, and a discouraging if temporary rebuff from the school's...